| Show Telegram fiction Made Up to Kill By Kelley Roos CHAPTER 28 You understood S Steve eve Jeff went on that Morris had never heard the name before Yes that's his story and he has hag stuck to it through every every- thing Why Jeff one of the things I want Morris to tell us Then Jeff went on musingly You know the funny thing about all alt this Lee Gray business Is that the police were on the right track from the very beginning only they didn't stay on It long enough Their theory was that Lee Gray was someone In hi the Green Apples company someone someone someone some some- one who had signed an ah assumed name to that note thinking Carol would understand it It w would uld have been difficult for an outsider to have got Into the theater up t to Carols Carol's dressing dressing dressing dress dress- ing room and out again without without without with with- out being se seen n by any anyone ne But Buta a very simple thing f for r a person person person per per- son son- sonin in the company They followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed their theory for a little while They checked that note with the handwriting of everybody everybody everybody every every- body In the cast even the mens men's although tb the writing was obviously obviously obviously feminine But th they y missed massed checking one person Who Carol breathed He looked at her quietly You Her hand went to her throat I But Jeff It was waa the note was Steve wheeled on Jeff his face dark ark and stormy What are you talking about Jeff That note was sent to Carol Why should they check h her r rhan han handwriting what we all thought That's where we made n our out first mistake Just because the note was found in her purs we sSU s- s SU n d that she had been the recipient We weren't bright enough to realize the truth The truth was that Carol wrote the note herself and It was found before she had Md a chance to send it it I a aI II I laughed laugh d and the sound fell like a drill clatter In the tense silence of the room But aut J Jeff lt its it's silly its it's Look at Carol Her eyes eyes' w were re f fastened on Jeffs Jeff's face held there as If H hyp hyp- Her lips p parted and trembled b but t there was no denial de denial denial de de- nial on them Jeff continued You wrote that note you Carol arol 7 Yes It was hardly more than a whisper And yoU left it in your purse where the police found it Im I'm not positiVe to whom It was written written written writ writ- ten but if I had three thre guesses guess s all of them would be Greeley MOrrIs Right 7 She nodded dully Yes It It was was to Gr Greeley eley Morris Steve said Carol Caro and put his hand s softly on n her a arm She in She brushed it off with a gentle movement her eyes still clinging Il g g to Jeff and she didn't seem tto to know that it was Steve Who spoke or Steve who touched herAnd herAnd herAnd her And the thing you ad to see him about that thing which was wasS wasso wasso S so impOrtant was to ask him not notto notto notto to tell anyone anyone that that you were were Lee Gray She said her her v voice a monotone monotone monotone mono mono- tone Yes How did you ou T know now Jeff s C Carol rol Begins st st. History I guess g guess e Im I'm m getting to be a detective Halla- Halla told Halla told me mee that the reason you had such a tough time getting a start on the stage was because you were such Abad a abad bad first reader that you you had to work Into a part before you could do anything with it Then yesterday Clint Bowers remarked remarked remarked re re- re- re marked about yo your r wonderful first reading for him that after he heard you Alice McDonald didn t have a chance for the part of ot Dina I should have got it then But I had to be and Tommy rommy Neilson did it for fok me He Hew w was s in Bowers' Bowers office ollice he said the first time you walked in and that you didn't give a reading you gave a performance And it dawned on me at last that for lor being a bad first reader you were sure knocking them over right and left I reach reached d out and took a guess Maybe you gave such a spectacular first re reading because it wasn't a first reading at all Maybe Mayb you knew that part But how could you 7 The play was done in England When Halla Haila and I w were re visiting Morris at the Gotha n I noticed that he had a half dozen scrapbooks ov overflowIng overflow overflow- Ing with clippings I got In his room while he was out and How in th the world did you get In his room Jeff I asked It was tough Even after I convinced a chambermaid that I IA A 4 was a detective I had to give her 10 and my fraternity pin with promises Were We're engaged but I think I ca can break it She doesn't know my name Besides I wouldn't marry a girl that didn't trust me She watched me while I read Morris' Morris scrapbook so I wouldn't swipe anything Well I found the London notices of Green Apples no Carol Blanton Blan- Blan ton B But t the play was tried out in Manchester and playing Dina was a girl named Leila Gray I knew from the review who Leila Lella Gray was The critic described described described de de- de- de scribed you pretty minutely Carol He raved about you Steves' Steves fingers be beat t a nervous rhythm on my mantelpiece He was watching Carol quietly his face a stony question She said not looking in his direction Ill tell you about it n if you want me to There isn't any use hidIng hiding hiding hid hid- ing it now No Jeff said Maybe if you tell us everything g we can help you Carol Blantons Blanton's my real name My mothers mother's name was Leila LeU a Gray and I liked it it took I-took it when I went to London Mother died when I was a bab baby my father wh when n I was 16 I was all alone I found a job in ina ina ina a department store I hated Salt Lake City I hated the store and andI I hated everything about my life I wanted to be an n actress And AndI I saved my money the little I earned I finally saved and then I won a dramatic prize that a a womans woman's club gave That wa was enough to go to London and enroll enroll enroll en en- roll in the Royal academy there Id I'd dreamed about that for years For the first time in my life I had what I wanted There was nothing to remind me of ot that store I had a little room all mine and new clothes and new work A new brand-new life in a new brand c country Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing was wonderful the way Id I'd planned it to be It was while I Iwas Iwas Iwas was at the academy that I met Greeley Morris She stopped and passed her hand wearily before before- her eyes Steve had stopped his drumming and there was only the sound of our breathing in the room I He came to see see our graduating ing exercises along with a lot of and producers producer's and directors all the really big people peo people peo- peo pie in the London theater theaters My performance had been good gOld he said perhaps he could use me He had a play now with a part that I might fit He thought I Continued on Following Page Made Up to Kill Continued from Preceding Page Pace sad iad some talent might some day make make nake an actress of myself I suppose suppose sup- sup pose iose he Ie did like my acting too But Jut that wasn't the reason he heg g jave gaie v me the part of Dina Dna in Green Apples r I worked for him Oh how hard lard I w worked He was nasty and sarcastic and sometimes I I wanted to cry in front of every- every ody lody But then I I was learning earning to be an actress I had hada a part on the stage Everything was wonderful too wonderful She smiled bitterly Well it itras was ras so far Just before we opened in Manchester lanchester r he started at me Coming into my dressing room and md pawing at me following me home lome nights and everywhere I went He wanted me to live with him lIim and I I hated him You dont don't know Greeley Morris Oh yes Jes you saw him in Clint Bowers Bowers' Bowers Bowers' Bowers Bowers' Bow Bow- ers' ers office but but you dont don't know him im YoU think Im I'm frightened now because someone's trying to kill III me but I was more frightened frightened frightened fright fright- ened then L 1 locked my door at night pushed the bureau in front of it I carried sandwiches into my room and ate them there because Iwas afraid to go out And at atthe atthe th the theater all those days and those nights every minute of it its it's was s as agony Hes He's oh I Ic c cant can't nt describe him to you I cant can't Greeley Morris' Morris dark sardonic face ace rose before me I didn't need Carol to describe him to me i It It was the fourth night that pe we Je played Manchester that it Happened I w was s crazy with all those weeks of being afraid of Greeley Morris I didn't know what I was doing any more I walked onto the stage and rind nd stood there I remember anything anything any- any thing my lines were gone I could hear the prompter but I couldn't say the words The audience audience au au- was all all' laughing some of them started to hoot I I. I I just walked off They brought the e curtain down put in the un un- un- un And Greeley Morris was waiting for me in my dressIng dressing dressing dress dress- ing room She stopped her eyes dark with the horror of remembering For the first time she looked at us Youre wondering why I didn't quit I couldn't It wouldn't have done me any good I knew I hide from him if he wanted to find me And I needed the jobA job jobA jobA A few nights later it happened happened happened hap hap- again I forgot my lines al almost almost almost al- al most at the same place This time I didn't go back to my dressing room I walked straight out into the street my costume on and my up make-up on I walked out into the street I went home The next day I started looking looking looking look look- ing for a job It wasn't any good There wasn't a manager in London London London Lon Lon- don who would let me work for him Morris had got there first 1 They knew I I Iwas was unreliable they knew I had memory lapses on stage I had walk walked d out of Greeley Morris Morns show To be continued |
